A source told TorrentFreak that the site expects Sweden to seize its domain name, thepiratebay.se, sometime soon. Currently, visitors to that site are automatically forwarded to Greenland—thepiratebay.gl—but otherwise, there's no noticeable difference.

The site went through a similar change in Feburary 2012, when, fearing a seizure from U.S. authorities, it gave up on thepiratebay.org for the Swedish domain.

In February, Sweden's Pirate Party announced that, under threat of lawsuit from Sweden's pro-copyright industry lobby, it would cease providing server space to the Pirate Bay. Sweden is one of several European countries where the Pirate Party isn't just an activist movement, but a legitimate political party. In 2012, Swedish Pirate Amelia Andersdotter spearheaded a movement in the European Union to shut down the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which would have tightened online copyright enforcement in participating nations around the world, including the U.S.